I am trying to do a promotion in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and it fails reporting GSR1211E.

The promotion fails and I see the below exception in the SystemOut.log.
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com.ibm.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistryItemLookupException: GSR1211E:
Unable to load the promoted governed collection. This is because the
promoted governed collection does not exist at the destination and
therefore nor should any of the governed objects but the governed
object with bsruri (someBsrUri) was found to
already exist at the destination.
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How do I solve this issue?

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The typical reason that this exception is seen is because an object which has been promoted get ungoverned and then regoverned and then repromoted. Once an object has been promoted it should never be ungoverned unless it is going to be deleted from all runtimes.

To delete the object you can find it in WSRR using the query wizard in the WSRR web user interface. Select "All Entities" and enter the (someBsrUri) ID into the "property value" field and the word "bsrURI" into the "property name" field and run a query you will find he offending object. Take note of its name and type and then find the object in a collection view. Once you find it you can mark it for deletion.